Reappraising David Livingstone's The Geographical Tradition: A quarter of a century on

Boyle, M ORCID: 0000-0002-9882-3907, Hall, T and Sidaway, JD (2019) Reappraising David Livingstone's The Geographical Tradition: A quarter of a century on. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 44 (3). pp. 438-443.

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Abstract

The information, practices and views in this article are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). © 2019 Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers). The quarter of a century since the publication of David Livingstone's The Geographical Tradition in 1992 provides an apt moment to reflect on the book's theses, lacunae, and legacies, and to take stock of the ways in which its provocations and reception might instruct the wider project of rendering the discipline's history. In framing this themed intervention, we engage the assertion that contextualisers need contextualising; there exists scope to heighten awareness of the location within time, space and culture from which contextualist historiographies of geography are written. We call attention to the meaning and implications of the particular and situated contextualist methodology mobilised and executed in The Geographical Tradition.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	classics, David Livingston, empire, Geographical Tradition, historiography, science
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	17 Dec 2019 09:11
Last Modified:	18 Sep 2023 17:56
DOI:	10.1111/tran.12294
Related URLs:	Author Publisher
URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3066674